Fox Sports (Aus): Wade Ryan vs. Dennis Hogan & Nikita Konstantinovich Tszyu vs. Aaron Stahl RBR

They play 500 Miles by the Proclaimers over the Nissan Arena loudspeakers as Hogan celebrates, noice.

 

Nikita Konstantinovich Tszyu vs. Aaron Stahl, 6 rounds @ super welterweight

 

True cringe is using this music for a pro boxing ring walk, ESPECIALLY your debut.

Soon as I heard the funeral bell I knew what it was and literally physically recoiled.

 

Round 1

Tszyu is leaving the right jab out, lazily prodding with it, just looking to set up a heavy left cross. He stuns Stahl with the first one he connects, causing Stahl's glove to dip toward the canvas, momentarily paralyzed on his feet. Tszyu glances at the ref thinking he might step in and stop it on the one punch, but - then it just gets awkward. Stahl is leaning back and pawing up with the left jab, trying a slingshot right hand in a high arc as Tszyu walks in on him. Tszyu working the southpaw 1-2 and every time he gets the left cross in it hurts Stahl, but none as flush as that first. Stahl mostly missing with his wild rights but Tszyu very arrogant walking in, disrespectful of Stahl's pop and not minding if he gets touched a bit. Tszyu methodical, in no hurry, just pushing in and carving with the 1-2.

10-9 Tszyu

 

He should have left it at "gym legends" and kept his what-could-have-been mystique intact. Doubt he makes a blip on his brother's legacy, never mind their dad's.